What are you doing Councilman Bob Diehl - take all your pompous rhetoric and spare us all!

Well, there's a reason I never placed much stock in the 'Committee of the Whole' and why to me it's nothing more than a Big Black Hole. 

You really believe they were going to investigate themselves in this Dem one-party town?

Made the mistake of going to last night's meeting just to see if they were going to provide anything of substance in their investigation to find themselves.

Silly me - all we got from Councilman Diehl was a lot of pompous rhetoric all the while sinking his own ship.

Consider the idiocrisy of Councilman Bob 'See No Conflict' Diehl:

He gets a report from the Postal inspector and who does he give it to - the local papers before the Council meeting and before it's brought before the Council to review or giving those who have been named in it a chance to respond.

He allows sitting Councilman Patil, on the Committee of the Whole all this time, to come in before the meeting in front of him, Councilman Gomez and the Postal Inspector to verify what was in the Postal Inspector's Report (while claiming no involvement himself) without being sworn in and he praises him for coming forward?

Geez, are you kidding me?

He allows Councilman Patil to speak at the close of the meeting, once again, without being sworn-in to proclaim his innocence while previously implicating the others named in the report.

He ambushes both the other 'Council of the Whole' Council Members and those being implicated.

Now, I'm certainly not a fan of Jerry 'ReferenDUMB' Shi or the Local Democratic Party but what Diehl did here was horrific and just plain stupid, if fairness or the search for the truth counts for anything.

Seems most of those implicated have denied it and now we're supposed to believe Councilman Patil who all of a sudden - after all these years sitting on the 'Council of the Whole' saying nothing, starts to own up now with what he knows about it and verifies what's in the Postal Inspector's Report?

Yeah, there's no politics here, just idiocrisy if you place any trust in what this 'Council of the Hole' is trying to do here.

Councilman Diehl should of done his follow-up with the Postal Inspector's Report with all the witnesses providing conflicting statements before jumping the gun and splashing it all over the local papers.

And, oh yeah, the Postal Inspector who was supposed to show up to testify last night was told he couldn't by the Postal Service. You'd think Diehl would of recognized he should of done his homework before jumping the gun anyway last night.

They should just disband this joke of a Committee once and for all. This is what you get when you allow the Local Dem-Party to infiltrate the Board of Education.

If you ever thought this process was a search for the truth, then ask yourself why at their very first Council of the Whole' meeting - they allowed Mayor Lankey, a potential witness, to give an opening speech without being under oath. That should of told you right then and there that this whole process was bogus and going nowhere.

All you got here is a he-said, he-said and then another he-said without any follow-up by the Committee splashed all over the local papers and nothing to back it up at last night's meeting. They called it information but they made sure they didn't take any questions about any of it. Seems Councilman Diehl didn't have any problems commenting to the local paper. I call that taking a cheap-shot.

Now, I don't know who's telling the truth here or who's not but neither do you - so, let's not jump the gun here like Councilman Diehl.  

So, you know what should happen since Councilman Diehl has now derailed any attempt at getting to the truth and lost all credibility with last night's performance - he should resign for his unbelievably poor handling of this 'Committee of the Hole' meeting last night. 

As for Councilman Patil, he should resign just for sitting up there for the last 3 years and not saying anything until last night.

As for Shi and Patel on the Board side of town - Shi should go just on the principal that he's a detriment to the Edison taxpayers on the Board and he can take his 'Edison First' team with him.

Just a Shameful Disgrace of Local Dem-party Rule in Search of themselves:

Here's last night's meeting:

Here's what the local papers reported before the meeting:

Here's the Postal Inspector's Report - they rolled on the screen at last night's meeting:

Anyhoo, Welcome to Edison where the Local Democ-Rats eat each other when they run out of food.